Sam Tordoff topped the standings in the opening free practice
session of the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship weekend at
Oulton Park, by lapping the Island circuit in 1m26.073s in his
Honda Civic Type-R this morning (Saturday).

Tordoff's late effort in the Cobra Sport AmD prepared machine
edged out long-time session leader Dan Cammish in the latest
factory backed Civic Type R, by less than a tenth of a second, with
championship form man Andrew Jordan third in his BMW Pirtek Racing
3 Series.

BTCC legend and two-time champion Jason Plato continued his return
to front-running form by leading the session for much of its first
half before ultimately winding up fourth in his Vauxhall Astra,
just two hundreths adrift of 2013 champion Jordan, with Tom Ingram
a mere 0.087s further back in the sole official Toyota
entry.

Of the other champions on the grid, Matt Neal fared the best with
sixth in his Honda Civic Type R, two places ahead of Ash Sutton,
winner of the BTCC in 2017, in his Subaru Levorg.

Reigning champion Colin Turkington was eleventh quickest as he
returned to the circuit at which he claimed the only win of his
title winning campaign last year in his Team BMW 330i M
Sport.

The next BTCC practice session is coming up at 12:10 ahead of the
qualifying session at 15:20.